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The Unfolding Desert: Observed Structural Drying and Projected Aridity Risks in a Brazilian Family Farming Citizenship Territory

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aridification in Semiarid regions is a recurring theme in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports and has been documented in Northeastern Brazil. This study analyzes the spatiotemporal dynamics of aridification in the Lower São Francisco River “Citizenship Territory” (Sergipe and Alagoas) at a fine spatial resolution (~1 km ...
Carlos Eduardo Pacheco Lima, Júlio Roberto Araújo de Amorim, Marcus Aurélio Soares Cruz, Mariana Rodrigues Fontenelle   +3 more
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Divergent Blue Carbon Trajectories in the Yellow River Delta Post‐1976 Diversion: Hydrological Stability and Human Disturbance Contrasts Revealed by Multi‐Source Remote Sensing (1984–2023)

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Coastal wetlands are critical blue carbon sinks, yet their spatiotemporal dynamics under environmental change remain insufficiently quantified. Taking the Yellow River Delta (YRD) as a natural laboratory, this study synthesizes multi‐source remote sensing data, including optical and radar imagery spanning from 1984 to 2023, to explore the ...
Mengqian Jiang, Haotian Liu, Zhenfang He, Zhaosheng Wang, Xuanjie Gai, Qingchun Guo, Shaowei Su   +6 more
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Refining techniques for high‐frequency monitoring of chlorophyll a fluorescence in estuarine systems

Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, EarlyView.
Abstract Concentrations of the photosynthetic pigment chlorophyll a are commonly used as a proxy for phytoplankton biomass in aquatic systems. Traditional methods for extracting chlorophyll a in discrete samples limit measurement frequency, while in situ sensor technology provides high frequency chlorophyll a fluorescence measurements at a more ...
Nicole Dix, Hannah Nicklay, Jacob Cianci‐Gaskill, Shannon Dunnigan Kimmel, J. Silas Tanner, Kim Cressman, Steven E. McMurray, Yoshimi M. Rii, Rikke Jeppesen, Rachel Guy, Erik Smith   +10 more
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Response of suspended sediment dynamics to human activities in the transitional zone between Changjiang Estuary and Hangzhou Bay

Frontiers in Marine Science
The Changjiang Estuary and Hangzhou Bay system has experienced river damming and estuarine engineering in the last decades. However, few studies focused on the shifts in its sediment dynamics due to such human activities.
Dongfeng Xie, Yuwen Chen, Cunhong Pan, Shenyang Zhang, Wen Wei, Zheng Bing Wang, Zheng Bing Wang, Jiali Gu, Wenyi Duan   +8 more
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Bed‐level tools for monitoring erosion and accretion patterns: Flume validation and field testing

Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, EarlyView.
Abstract Monitoring short‐term changes in surface sediment elevation is fundamental to understanding erosion, transport, and deposition dynamics in shallow coastal environments. However, commonly used field approaches, such as horizontal markers, sediment erosion tables, subsurface sediment plates, or erosion pins, are not always cross‐validated under ...
Lucía Rodríguez‐Arias, Inés Mazarrasa, Beatriz Marin‐Diaz, Teresa Alcoverro, Barbara Ondiviela, Jordi F. Pagès, Eduardo Infantes   +6 more
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Impact of Coastal Squeeze Induced by Erosion and Land Reclamation on Salt Marsh Wetlands

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
Salt marshes are declining due to the dual pressures of coastal erosion and land reclamation. However, there remains a lack of quantitative analysis regarding this reduction process and its driving mechanisms.
Guangzhi Zhang, Jiali Gu, Hao Hu, Maoming Sun, Jie Shao, Weiliang Dong, Liang Liang, Jian Zeng   +7 more
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A novel approach to estimate non‐algal particle absorption for improved retrieval of pigment concentrations in coastal waters

Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, EarlyView.
Abstract Phytoplankton play a central role in ocean biogeochemistry and understanding their composition and variability is critical for monitoring marine ecosystem dynamics. Continuous spectrophotometric measurements (using a Seabird Sci. AC‐S) along ship tracks enable high‐resolution measurements of particle spectral absorption (apλ$$ {a}_p\left ...
Margherita Costanzo, Vittorio E. Brando, Emmanuel Boss, Alison Chase, David Doxaran   +4 more
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Spatiotemporal dynamics and influencing factors of native and invasive saltmarshes in a rapidly silting bay during 1985–2023

Frontiers in Marine Science
Globally, native saltmarshes are declining, while invasive saltmarshes are expanding rapidly. However, the underlying processes and driving mechanisms behind these trends remain poorly understood, particularly in rapidly silting coastal bays.
Mingshan Xu, Mingshan Xu, Mingshan Xu, Jiali Gu, Peng Yun, Jianjun Gan, Wenzhou Fan, Zhentao Chen, Jie Shao, Guangzhi Zhang, Jian Zeng   +10 more
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Seagrass species diversity in Tanzania based on morphological and molecular data

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Seagrass diversity along the Tanzanian coast has been documented mainly through morphology, with limited molecular reference data available for Tanzania and the wider Western Indian Ocean. This study combined morphological identification with nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and plastid ribulose‐1,5‐bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase
James Leonard Lusana, Blandina Robert Lugendo   +1 more
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Dynamic response of communities and ecosystem functions to ecosystem engineering and multiple stressors in a marine mussel bed

Oikos, EarlyView.
Ecosystem engineers are crucial to the development of coastal ecosystem communities and functions. However, a better understanding of how environmental stressors affect ecosystem engineering and thereby influence communities and ecosystem dynamics is needed. We conducted an in situ experiment in a blue mussel Mytilus spp.
Félix Lauzon, Charlotte Carrier‐Belleau, Jérémie Boucher‐Fontaine, Philippe Archambault, Mathieu Cusson, Frédéric Guichard   +5 more
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